Crab Wontons

Last week (Fri 12/8) TC and I trekked over to Lotus and Shogun's place to make Crab Wontons. Lotus was kind enough to let me kick back at her place and put the wontons in their spare freezer, since we had no room in our regular one. I apologize for the crappy quality of the night photos, but I really liked what Shogun did for their holiday yard decoration... This year, it's a stream of water it's drinking from...Last year it was a pool of water. Nice!

Crab Wontons

2 lbs of fake crab meat (you can buy this at Costco where it's conveniently packaged in 1 lb packs)

2 blocks of softenedcream cheese (you can use the lower fat Neufchatel, but you can't tell the difference!)

2 cans (drained) corn

chopped green onion tops

paprika

soy sauce

black pepper

little square won ton wrappers (2 packages of 50 each---I happened to use Dynasty brand, but any brand will do)

1 beaten egg (use this goo to seal the edges together)

Unfortunately I did not take photos of the procedure, but here's what you do:

Chop up the fake crab meat

Add in the softened cream cheese (we nuked it)

Add the corn and the chopped green onion tops (the amount is up to you, but remember you want to make sure each won ton has enough of each ingredient in it when you bite into it)

Mix it up well!

Add the spices and soy sauce to taste. Don't put so much soy sauce that it turns brown! Just a little to give it flavor. I like paprika for added color and zing but then again, once it's fried, you can't really taste it.

Place a dollop of the crab mixturein the center of the square won ton wrapper.

Using your fingers, use the beaten egg to seal 2 edges of the square and fold into a triangle.

You can freeze a whole batch for later or you can fry them up right away!!! Lotus fried these in her wok with peanut oil...

I arranged them like this on baking sheets which Lotus froze. After about an hour, she transferred them to big ziploc bags.

Meanwhile, TC played with the dogs and cracked almonds for fun. One of the dogs (Maggie) waited patiently for her to drop some nuts by mistake, which she did. We had dinner that night at their home. Bert came straight from work to join us. Here are some fried gyoza (Japanese potstickers, but fried, not steamed) that I bought at a Korean store. I believe these were pork.

Lotus, being the kickass cook that she is, had a Indonesian sauce ready to go (can you post that recipe?) for Nasi Goreng, Indonesian fried rice...It was a thick dark sauce with shallots, soy sauce, ketchup (?), garlic (?) and some other stuff that she mixed in with the rice! Oh my God! It was so good!

We sampled some of the crab wontons which Lotus graciously fried...

Here's my crab won ton's guts...

Dip in sweet and sour sauce and enjoy!